Monday, February 3, 2014

The ruin of South Africa

So what is wrong or
going wrong with South
Africa? Well, from what I have been told and
what I have read the answer is as obvious as the nose on your face – The ANC is
what is wrong with South
Africa and in particular the buffoon that is
the party’s head. Allister Sparks, a well-known and respected journalist has
written a piece “The death South
Africa. Read this and weep.” The article is
much too detailed to go into here but it concerns the mining industry and some
pertinent facts from Mr. Sparks article` will illustrate all. Nicky Oppenheimer, current chairman of Oppenheimer who has just sold
all the family shares for $5.2 billion, says it was a tough decision. The death
of South Africa's mines is
the death of South Africa...
There are many microcosms of decay that one can use as examples of the decay
of the macrocosm of South
Africa. In many respects the booming of SouthAfrica's mining industry and its current decay under the
ANC's Black Economic Empowerment system is a microcosm of the booming of the Republic of South Africa under
Apartheid and its decay under the ANC.
Money was flowing, salaries were high. By the 1970s Anglo Gold was operating
six massive mines, with 22
deep level shafts, in which 122,000 people worked. The mines of Welkom were
producing 35% of the gold in South
Africa, which in turn was producing 75%
of the world's gold.
Times were good for blue-collar whites. Even in the nearby black township of Thabong
and the township
of Bronville, the living
standards were very high. But then the ANC took over in 1994, mostly with the help of the Oppenheimers and J.P. Morgan, who founded Anglo American Corporation in 1917. Hardly had the
ANC communists taken over, than they wanted not only a slice of the pie from the mining industry, but the whole pie.
Black Economic Empowerment was introduced and mines had to give away half of
their assets to black ANC members. For Anglo American Corporation, the
writing was on the wall and before they could lose everything, they merged
with Minorco in 1999 and moved their assets to London. In the last 10-15
years, more than 100,000 jobs have been lost in Welkom industry. Today, the
mines are being plundered for scrap metal. The municipality of Matjabeng
(nee Welkom) is run by the ANC. In June 2011 it came into prominence as one of
the worst examples of ANC corruption and misrule. How a small town blew R2bn.
on dodgy deals. The Aurora
mine at Grootvlei, which is owned by the Zuma and Mandela families and at one
stage employed 5000 workers, now have less than 200. Aurora is now a ghost town.
On the 8th of May 2011, in a Carte Blanche TV show, it was revealed that
Cosatu (Council of SA Trade Unions) calls the owners of Aurora (Zuma and
Mandela family members) -- Super Exploiters!!
If there is an abyss of desperation, these men abandoned at the mineworker
hostels are in it. At Grootvlei, near Springs, the water and electricity has
been cut, the toilets are a sanitary shock. On good days, they may have hot
food. Two hours drive to the west, is the Orkney mine in Klerksdorp. There
is an inescapable feeling of sadness here. Cooking pots are empty here too.
Ntsani Mohapi has been on the mine since the mid '70s; he should be in line
for a pension, but that is all gone now. "There are people who are crying,
there are people who are dying, because we deal with people who are
lying".
As things stand hundreds of miners are still in limbo; millions of Rands are
outstanding in salaries. Wives have left husbands, children have dropped out
of school, people have been blacklisted. They can't even claim Unemployment
Insurance Funds.
The allegations against Aurora's directors are damning: since they took over
the Pamodzi mines in 2009, which were fully operational at the time, they
have been accused of not paying salaries, making endless broken promises,
misappropriating UIF and pension fund money and stripping assets of mines
they haven't paid for. (Source: Carte Blanche TV programme). The BBC has
extensively reported on how the Zuma (Jacob Zuma's nephew) and Mandela
(Nelson Mandela's grandson) families exploit their workers and treat them
worse than dogs. While the Zuma and Mandela family members grow rich and
fat, they do not pay their starving workers, which effectively makes them
slave owners. Is this the 'Freedom' Mandela and Zuma spoke about and fought
for? They were not Freedom Fighters... They were not fighting for the
Freedom of the people, rather for the enslavement of the people under a
communist yoke.

The Grootvlei mine now stands in ruins. What could not be stolen and sold
for scrap, is cut up and sold to the Chinese state-owned mining company,
Shandong Gold. The white foreman at Aurora
can only stand and watch as the
looting of the mine continues. This is the same ANC who wants to nationalize
the mines, the banks and the farms. Can you even imagine the utter
enslavement of blacks, the dilapidation and ruin of South Africa that will
follow? that The Aurora mine at
Grootvlei, which is owned by the Zuma and Mandela families and at one stage
employed 5000 workers, now have less than 200. Aurora is now a ghost town.
On the 8th of May 2011, in a Carte Blanche TV show, it was revealed that
Cosatu (Council of SA Trade Unions) calls the owners of Aurora (Zuma and
Mandela family members) -- Super Exploiters!!
If there is an abyss of desperation, these men abandoned at the mineworker
hostels are in it. At Grootvlei, near Springs, the water and electricity has
been cut, the toilets are a sanitary shock. On good days, they may have hot
food. Two hours drive to the west, is the Orkney mine in Klerksdorp. There
is an inescapable feeling of sadness here. Cooking pots are empty here too.
Ntsani Mohapi has been on the mine since the mid '70s; he should be in line
for a pension, but that is all gone now. "There are people who are crying,
there are people who are dying, because we deal with people who are
lying".
As things stand hundreds of miners are still in limbo; millions of Rands are
outstanding in salaries. Wives have left husbands, children have dropped out
of school, people have been blacklisted. They can't even claim Unemployment
Insurance Funds.
The allegations against Aurora's directors are damning: since they took over
the Pamodzi mines in 2009, which were fully operational at the time, they
have been accused of not paying salaries, making endless broken promises,
misappropriating UIF and pension fund money and stripping assets of mines
they haven't paid for. (Source: Carte Blanche TV programme). The BBC has
extensively reported on how the Zuma (Jacob Zuma's nephew) and Mandela
(Nelson Mandela's grandson) families exploit their workers and treat them
worse than dogs. While the Zuma and Mandela family members grow rich and
fat, they do not pay their starving workers, which effectively makes them
slave owners. Is this the 'Freedom' Mandela and Zuma spoke about and fought
for? They were not Freedom Fighters... They were not fighting for the
Freedom of the people, rather for the enslavement of the people under a
communist yoke.

The Grootvlei mine now stands in ruins. What could not be stolen and sold
for scrap, is cut up and sold to the Chinese state-owned mining company,
Shandong Gold. The white foreman at Aurora
can only stand and watch as the
looting of the mine continues. This is the same ANC who wants to nationalize
the mines, the banks and the farms. Can you even imagine the utter
enslavement of blacks, the dilapidation and ruin of South Africa that will
follow?
SEEN IN PARKING LOT AT THE MANGAUNG ANC ELECTIVE CONFERENCE IN DECEMBER
2013:

~ 106 BMW X5's,

~ 28 RANGE ROVER SPORTS,
j

~ 211 BMW 5 or 7 series
sedans,

~ 11 MASERATI's,

~ 103 MERCEDES BENZ sedans (C & E
Class),

~ 6 HUMMERS,

~ 9
FERRARI's.

Apart from the fact that the tax payer is
paying to get all these cars to the conference, paying for the luxury
accommodation, decadently luxurious and excessive food and drinks (all free!!),
wives, spouses, lovers, friends and family - all catered for - all at tax
payers’ expense.

And then we wonder why the government says
they don't have money for RDP housing, a proper education system,
proper healthcare facilities, a properly trained and corrupt-free police force
and crime control - and all the other things they promised and haven't
honoured !!!!

And then this ................

Apart from the fact that the tax payer is
paying to get all these cars to the conference, paying for the luxury accommodation,
decadently luxurious and excessive food and drinks (all free!!), wives,
spouses, lovers, friends and family - all catered for - all at tax payers’
expense.

And then we wonder why the government says
they don't have money for RDP housing, a proper education system,
proper healthcare facilities, a properly trained and corrupt-free police force
and crime control - and all the other things they promised and haven't
honoured !

As for the buffoon, he of the multiple
wives, also supported by the tax-payer, and who believes AIDS can be avoided by
taking a shower, how do you describe the insensitive mentality of someone who
builds his multi-billion new kraal with a humble mud hut practically against
the perimeter wall? If that is not going to blow the ANC out of the water
nothing will ever shift them. They will make sure they are there for keeps and
Africa will have another Zimbabwe.

1 comment:

Lewis
said...

They already have another Zimbabwe, but have gone about it a bit differently. South Africa is now a rickety inefficient two-family business (Mandelas and Zumas) living on what capital still remains, not a one-man dictatorship - yet.

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